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Create a Microsoft Fabric Workspace

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Applies to: ✅ SQL database in Microsoft Fabric

The Microsoft Fabric workspace contains all the items needed for data warehousing: Data Factory pipelines, the warehouse, Power BI semantic models, operational databases, and reports.

Before you can create a database and get further in this tutorial, create a new Microsoft Fabric Workspace. This is where you build out the remainder of the tutorial. At the end of this tutorial, you'll Clean up resources by removing this workspace from Fabric.

Prerequisites

  1. You need an existing Fabric capacity. If you don't have one, start a Fabric trial.
  2. Make sure that you Enable SQL database in Fabric using Admin Portal tenant settings.

Create a workspace

  1. Sign in to Power BI.

  2. Select Workspaces > New workspace.

  3. Fill out the Create a workspace form as follows:

    Screenshot of the create workspace dialogue in the Fabric portal.

    • Name: Enter (your username or other unique characters) Supply Chain Analytics Tutorial.
    • Description: Optionally, enter a description for the workspace.

  4. Expand the Advanced section.

  5. Choose Fabric capacity or Trial in the License mode section, or choose a premium capacity you have access to.

  6. Select Apply. The workspace is created and opened.

Next step

Create a SQL database in Microsoft Fabric